Read Shawn Dickerson’s post on Project Time Management Strategies at the link below:

Time is not on your side when it comes to project management. Work piles up and deadlines approach quickly. While project managers haven’t figured out how to bend time and space to their bidding, there are time management techniques that you can use to manage the time you spend on tasks.

No, it’s not science fiction, it’s project time management. Managing project time requires planning, scheduling, monitoring and control tasks throughout the project life cycle. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s start at the beginning.

What Is Project Time Management?

Project time management is the project management process of analyzing work and developing a timeline to ensure you complete a project within a particular schedule.

There are six steps when managing project time:

  1. Define Activities: Define all the tasks necessary to produce the project’s final deliverable.
  2. Sequence Activities: Set the order of the tasks and deliverables.
  3. Estimate Resources: Identify what resources are needed (as well as the quantity) to complete tasks and produce deliverables.
  4. Estimate Duration: Figure out how long each task will take to complete and estimate the duration of the entire project timeline.
  5. Develop Schedule: Using the above information, create a project schedule.
  6. Control Schedule: Develop a strategy to mitigate risk and address changes to the project schedule when it’s executed.

The time management steps above require input from your project team, but also stakeholders and other parties involved in the project in order to be as accurate as possible. Your project time management plan is not static, and must be reviewed and revised throughout the life cycle of the project.

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